Mental Health Training for Line Managers

In 2024 Workplace Health developed a bespoke training course specifically aimed towards UCL line managers. This training course is designed to equip managers with the essential knowledge and tools needed to support the mental health and wellbeing of their teams. 

This comes after UCL was awarded the University Mental Health Charter Award in 2022 and, in 2024, developed a set of Mental Health Principles, creating a strategic institution-wide approach to mental health and wellbeing.  

The training course has utilised mental health case studies to create an authentic and robust module-based training that provides information, benefitting mental health support in the workplace.  

Within the workplace it is important that managers look after their own mental health, but also understand the role and remit they play in the workplace in regard to mental health support. 

Some of the benefits of this training course include: 

• Upskilling managers about how to recognise signs and symptoms of stress and common mental health issues 
• How to adapt to their team members’ individual needs (including reasonable adjustments)  
• Where to find and how to use resources that will enable managers to support their team   

The layout of the training is module based, online and self-paced. It should take no longer than one hour to complete. 

This is the first of three trainings to be developed by Workplace Health. Two more bespoke mental health trainings will follow over the next two years: 

• A training aimed at staff in pastoral roles, due late 2025 
• A training aimed at all staff members of UCL, due late 2026 

Register for the Mental Health Training for Managers